Gary Kildall

1942–1994 · American computer scientist and entrepreneur

Topics: programming, learning

• You need to study other people's work. Their approaches to problem solving and the tools they use give you a fresh way to look at your own work.

  — Gary Kildall

• It's fun to sit at a terminal and let the code flow. It sounds strange, but it just comes out my brain; once I'm started, I don't have to think about it.

  — Gary Kildall

• The ALGOL compiler was probably one of the nicest pieces of code to come out at that time. I spent hours trying to fix and change the compiler. Working with it so closely affected the way I think about programming and had a profound influence on my style.

  — Gary Kildall

• I expected too much of educators. I expected them to understand, in a sense, the sugar-coated concepts of LISP used in AI that were embodied in the Logo language. It was then that I learned that computers were built to make money, not minds.

  — Gary Kildall